Xerox 3270 User Manual

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Full IBM 3268/87 and 4214 emulations including the APL feature
and all applicable RPQs (subject to restrictions of the ASCII
printers).

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Serial input or output  (in case of serial connector)

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Access to all the special facilities on your Xerox printer from the
host.

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Automatic input sharing between Coax, Centronics and RS (in
case of serial connector) input.

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Coax FSL setup via Centronics.

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Support of up to 8 user strings of variable length can be transmit-
ted to the printer from the converter - automatically at power on
and before and after Local Copy from the host system.

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Up to 16 translate tables (8 for text and 8 for APL) which may be
modified as you wish. Each character from the host may be
transmitted to up to 12 ASCII characters.

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Flash PROM allowing the downloading of new firmware  via the
coax or the Centronics port.

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Full backwards compatibility with existing products.

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Support of ida PSS software package

1.5. 3270 Protocol Converter Programming

The 3270 Protocol Converter uses a large number of internal setup
functions. See Chapter 2. Function Selection via the Line.  When the
converter is installed and connected to a printer, you may have to
consider the use of these settings.